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John H. Addiego

  • The Jaguar Tree, Oak Tree Press, 2015
  • Tears of the Mountain, Unbridled Books, 2010
  • The Islands of Divine Music, Unbridled Books, 2008

Naveed Alamnu

  • A Queen Of No Ordinary Realms: Poems, Eastern Washington University Press, 2004

Paula Gunn Allen

  • America the Beautiful: Last Poems, West End Press, 2010
  • Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat, HarperSanFrancisco, 2003
  • Hozho: Walking in Beauty, McGraw-Hill, 2001
  • Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Cannons, Beacon Press, 1998
  • Life is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995, West End Press, 1997
  • Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994, Oneworld, 1996
  • Voice of the Turtle, Ballantine Books, 1994
  • Bridges: Literature Across Cultures, McGraw-Hill, 1994
  • The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
  • Grandmothers of The Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook, Beacon Press, 1991
  • Skin and Bones, West End Press, 1988
  • Wyrds, Taurean Horn Press, 1987
  • The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Aunt Lute Books, 1983
  • Shadow Country, American Indian Studies Center, 1982
  • A Cannon Between My Knees, Strawberry Press, 1981
  • Star Child, Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1981
  • Coyote’s Daylight Trip, La Confluencia, 1978
  • Blind Lion, Thorp Springs Press, 1974

Zainab F. (Samina) Ali

  • Madras on Rainy Days, Picador, 2004

William Archila

  • The Gravedigger’s Archaeology, Red Hen Press, 2015
  • The Art of Exile, Bilingual Review/Press, Arizona State University, 2009

Diane Doty Averill

  • Beautiful Obstacles, Blue Light Press, 1998
  • Branches Doubled Over With Fruit, University Press of Florida, 1991

Judith A. Azrael

  • Wherever I Wander, Impassio Press, 2004
  • Apple Tree Poems, Confluence Press, 1983
  • Antelope Are Running, Confluence Press, 1978
  • Fields of Light, Cassiopeia Press, 1974 (as Judith Anne Greenberg)
  • Fire in August: A Poem in 31 Parts, Zeitgeist, 1969

William C. Bamberger (as “W. C. Bamberger”)

  • Of Fret Rattle & Underwater Skylabs: Essays on Music and Musicians, Borgo Press, 2013
  • A Llull in the Compass: A Science Fiction Novel, Borgo Press, 2011
  • Locust Gleanings: Essays, Reviews, and Other Interregna on Books, Language, and Literature, 1984-2009, Borgo Press, 2010
  • On the Backstretch, Livingston Press, 2009
  • And, in conclusion, I would Also Like to Mention Hydrogen: 11 1/2 Essays and 1 1/2 Stories, Wildside Press, 2009
  • 43 Views of Steve Katz, Wildside Press, 2007
  • The Master Tanner Heads West, Livingston Press, 2006
  • Adelbert Ames, Jr.: A life of Vision and Becomingness, Bamberger Books, 2006
  • Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh: The Arts of Don Van Vliet, Bamberger Books, 1999
  • Kenward Elmslie: A Bibliographical Profile, Bamberger Books, 1993
  • A Jealously for Aesop, Swallow’s Tale Press, 1987

Lory Bedikian

  • The Book of Lamenting, Anhinga Press, 2010

Lillias Bever

  • Bellini in Istanbul, Tupelo Press, 2005

Donald Bodey

  • F.N.G., Viking Press, 1985

Tina Mozelle Braziel

  • Known by Salt, Anhinga Press, 2019

Olga Broumas

  • The Choir, Copper Canyon Press, 2000
  • Rave: Poems 1975-1999, Copper Canyon Press, 1999
  • Sappho’s Gymnasium, Copper Canyon Press, 1994
  • Helen Groves, Core Press, 1994
  • Perpetua, Copper Canyon Press, 1989
  • Black Holes, Black Stockings, Wesleyan University Press, 1985
  • Pastoral Jazz, Copper Canyon Press, 1983
  • Soie Sauvage, Copper Canyon Press, 1979
  • Yellow Field Rose, Two Magpie Press, 1979
  • Beginning with O, Yale University Press, 1977

Stacey L. Brown

  • Cradle Song, C&R Press, 2009

John R. Campbell

  • Absence and Light: Meditations from the Klamath Marshes, University of Nevada Press, 2002

Felecia Caton Garcia

  • Say That, University of New Mexico Press, 2013

Matthew D. Cashion

  • How The Sun Shines On Noise, Livingston Press, 2004

Daniel Chacon

  • Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops, Arte Publico Press, 2013
  • Editor of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga, University of Arizona Press, 2008
  • Unending Rooms, Black Lawrence Press, 2008
  • and the shadows took him: A Novel, Washington Square Press, 2005
  • Chicano Chicanery: Short Stories, Arte Publico Press, 2000

Dana Curtis

  • Camera Stellata, WordTech Communications, 2011
  • The Body’s Response to Famine, Pavement Saw Press, 2000

Michael Copperman

  • Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta, University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Raphael Dagold

  • Bastard Heart, Silverfish Review Press, 2014

Debra Dean

  • The Mirrored World: A Novel, Harper, 2012
  • Confessions of a Falling woman: And Other Stories, Harper Perennial, 2008
  • The Madonnas of Leningrad, William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2006

David M. Denny

  • The Gill Man in Purgatory, short stories, 2016
  • Man Overboard, Wipf & Stock, 2013
  • Fool in the Attic, Aldrich Press, 2013
  • Writing: Reasons and Results, Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 1989

Stephanie E. Dickinson

  • Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, New Michigan Press, 2013
  • Lust Series, Spuyten Duyvil, 2011
  • Half Girl, Spuyten Duyvil, 2008
  • Corn Goddess, Rain Mountain Press, 2007
  • Road of Five Churches, Rain Mountain Press, 2007

Albert D. Drake

  • Overtures to Motion, Stone Press, 2011
  • The Age of Hot Rods: Essays on Rods, Custom Cars and Their Drivers from the 1950s to Today, McFarland & Company, 2008
  • Fifties Flashback: A Nostalgia Trip, California Bill’s Automotive Handbooks, 2003
  • Hot Rodder from Lakes to Street, Motorbooks Classic, 1993
  • Street Was Fun in ’51, Motorbooks Intl, 1983
  • I Remember the Day James Dean Died, and Other Stories, Thunder Baas Press, 1983
  • The Big “Little GTO” Book, Motorbooks Intl., 1982
  • Beyond the Pavement, Thunder Baas Press, 1981
  • Garage: Poems, Mudborn Press, 1980
  • One Summer, Thunder Baas Press, 1979
  • In the Time of Surveys and Other Stories of Americans Abroad, White Ewe Press, 1978
  • Tillamook Burn, Fault Publications, 1977
  • The Postcard Mysteries and Other Stories, Red Cedar Press, 1976
  • Cheap Thrills: Poems, Peaceweed Press, 1975
  • Returning to Oregon: Poems, Cider Press, 1975
  • 13 Ways of Looking at a Model A, Stone Press, 1974
  • Assuming the Position, Pilot Press Books, 1973
  • Riding Bike in the Fifties, Stone Press, 1973
  • Poems, Stone Press, 1972

Cory J. Eberhart

  • The Building of Ellensburg, Scarce Bicentennial, 1976

Cai Emmons

  • Weather Woman, Red Hen Press, 2018
  • The Stylist, HarperCollins, 2007
  • His Mother’s Son, Harcourt, 2003

Elyse Fenton

  • Sweet Insurgent, Saturnalia, 2017
  • Clamor, Cleveland State U Poetry Center, 2010

Jeffery E. Forester

  • The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005

Phillip O. Foss, Jr.

  • Grace, the Snakes and the Dogs, Salt-Works Press, 1978
  • Roaring Fork Passage, Uzzano Press, 1977

Gina Rae Foster

  • Beautiful Laceration, Atropos Press, 2012
  • Lyric Dwelling: The Art & Ethics of Invitation & Occupation, Atropos Press, 2012
  • Heart, Speech, This, Atropos Press, 2009

Chloe Garcia Roberts

  • Fire Eater:  A Translator's Theology, 2024
  • The Reveal, Noemi Press, 2015
  • Translator, Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes by Li Schangyin, New Directions Poetry Pamphlets, 2014

Miriam Gershow

  • The Local News, Spiegel and Grau (an imprint of Random House), 2009

Eugene Gloria

  • My Favorite Warlord, Penguin, 2012
  • Hoodlum Birds, Penguin, 2006
  • Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, Penguin Books, 2000

Erdağ M. Göknar

  • Nomadologies, Turtle Point Press (2017)
  • Translator, Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blaspheny: The Politics of the Turkish Novel, Routledge, 2013
  • Translator, Earth and Ashes, Other Press, 2010
  • Translator, A Mind at Peace, Archipelago Books, 2008
  • Translator, My Name is Red, Vintage, 2001

Cecelia A. Hagen

  • Entering, Arlie Press, 2011

James A. Heynen (as “Jim Heynen”)

  • Ordinary Sins, Milkweed Editions, 2014
  • The Fall of Alice K., Milkweed Editions, 2012
  • Standing Naked: New & Selected Poems, Confluence Press, 2010
  • Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942, University of Iowa Press, 2007
  • Boys House: New & Selected Stories, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001
  • Fishing for Chickens: Short Stories about rural Youth, Persea Books, 2001
  • The One-Room Schoolhouse: Stories About the Boys, Knopf, 1993
  • Writing About Home, Northwest Writing Institute, 1992
  • One Hundred Over 100: Moments with One Hundred North American Centenarians, Fulcrum Publishing, 1990
  • You Know What is Right, North Point Press, 1985
  • Suitable Church, Copper Canyon Press, 1981
  • The Man Who Kept Cigars in His Cap, Graywolf Press, 1978
  • Notes from Custer, Bear Claw Press, 1976

Kate L. Hibbard

  • Sweet Weight, Tiger Bark Press, 2012
  • Sleeping Upside Down, Silverfish Review Press, 2006

Kerry Hoffman (as “Kerry Cohen”)

  • The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity, Writer’s Digest Books, 2014
  • Seeing Ezra: A Mother’s Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal, Seal Press 2011
  • Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity, Sourcebooks, 2011
  • Loose Girl A Memoir of Promiscuity, Hyperion, 2008
  • Easy, Simon & Schuster, 2006

S. M. (Sarah) Hulse

  • Eden Mine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020
  • Black River, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

Lawson Fusao Inada

  • Only What We Could Carry, Heyday, 2000
  • Drawing the Line: Poems, Coffee House Press, 1997
  • In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon, Japanese American National Museum, 1993
  • Legends from Camp: Poems, Coffee House Press, 1992
  • The Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99, Mountain View: Buddhahead Press, 1978 (with Garrett Kaoru Hongo and Alan Chong Lau)
  • Before the War; Poems as They Happened, Morrow, 1971

Major Jackson

  • Roll Deep: Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, 2015
  • Holding Company: Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, 2012
  • Hoops: Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, 2007
  • Leaving Saturn: Poems, University of Georgia Press, 2002

L. D. Janakos

  • Plato’s Screw, Wild Ocean Press, 2014
  • Oldest Show, highmoonoon, 2000

Lynn C. Jeffress

  • The Dali Code & Other Paris Stories, Wild Ocean Press, 2009

Sara Eliza Johnson

  • Bone Map, Milkweed Editions, 2014

Jeffrey Klausman

  • A Season Along Bellingham Bay, Mellen Poetry Press, 2004

Christian Knoeller

  • Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change, University of Nevada Press, 2017
  • Completing the Circle, Buttonwood Press, 2000
  • Voicing Ourselves: Whose Words We Use When We Talk About Books, State University of New York Press, 1998

Keetje Kuipers

  • The Keys to the Jail, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2014
  • Beautiful in the Mouth, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010

Marilyn D. Krysl

  • Yes, There Will Be Singing, University of Michigan Press, 2014
  • Swear the Burning Vow Selected and New Poems, Ghost Road Publishing Group, 2009
  • Dinner with Osama, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008
  • How to Accommodate Men: Stories, Coffee House Press, 1998
  • Warscape, with Lovers, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997
  • Soulskin, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1996
  • What We Have to Live With, Teal Press, 1989
  • Midwife and Other Poems on Caring, National League for Nursing, 1989
  • Mozart, Westmoreland, and Me: Stories, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1985
  • Diana Lucifera, Shameless Hussy Press, 1983
  • More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1980
  • Honey, You’ve Been Dealt a Winning Hand, Capra Press, 1980
  • Saying Things, University of Nebraska Press, 1978

Chang-rae Lee

  • On Such a Full Sea, Riverhead Books, 2014
  • The Surrendered, Riverhead Books, 2011
  • Aloft, Riverhead Books, 2004
  • A Gesture Life: A Novel, Riverhead Books, 2000
  • Native Speaker, Riverhead Books, 1996

Kristien E. Lindquist

  • Invocation to the Birds, Oyster River Press, 2001

Brigit P. Madonick (as “Brigit Pegeen Kelly”)

  • Poems: Song and the Orchard, Carcanet Press Ltd, 2008
  • The Orchard, BOA Editions, 2004
  • Song, BOA Editions, 1995
  • To the Place of the Trumpets, Yale University Press, 1988

Michael David Madonick

  • Bulrushes, The Backwaters Press, 2013
  • Waking the Deaf Dog, Avocet, 2000

Bradley A. Maxfield (as “Brad Maxfield”)

  • For All We Know, The Backwaters Press, 2011

Winthrop L. McCormack (as “Win McCormack”)

  • You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen’s Guide to Republican Family Values, Tin House Books, 2008

Brandy N. McDougall

  • The Salt-Wind: Ka Makani Pa’Akai, Kuleana Oiwi Press, 2008

Philip Memmer

  • The Storehouses of the Snow: Psalms, Parables, and Dreams, University of Washington Press, 2012
  • Lucifer: A Hagiography, University of Washington Press, 2011
  • Threat of Pleasure, WordTech Communications, 2008
  • Sweetheart, Baby, Darling, WordTech Communications, 2004

Amy J. Minato

  • Siesta Lane: One Cabin, No Running Water, and A Year Living Green, Skyhorse Publishing, 2009

Andres M. Montoya

  • The Iceworker Sings and Other Poems, Bilingual Review Press, 1999

Kenneth C. Moore (as “Kenny Moore”)

  • Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, Rodale Books, 2006
  • The Great Hood Charmer: A Unique Difference in Storytelling, Outskirts Press, 2010
  • Best Efforts, Doubleday, 1982

Jay S. Nebel

  • Neighbors, Saturnalia, 2015

Dylan Nelson

  • Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds, North Point Press, 2004

Jude Nutter

  • I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009
  • The Curator of Silence, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
  • Pictures of the Afterlife, Salmon Poetry, 2003
  • A Prayer for Robert Lee, Salmon Publishing Ltd, 2001

Gina Ochsner

  • The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, Houghton Mifflin, 2010
  • People I Wanted to Be, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
  • The Necessary Grace to Fall, University of Georgia Press, 2002

Michelle Peñaloza

  • Landscape/heartbreak, Two Sylvias Press, 2015

Kathleen R. Pheifer

  • The Birds Were Molting, Word Beat Press, 1991

Kirstin Valdez Quade

  • Night at the Fiestas, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Matt Rader

  • What I Want to Tell Goes Like This, Nightwood, 2014
  • A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno, House of Anansi Press, 2011
  • Living Things, Nightwood, 2008
  • Miraculous Hours, Nightwood, 2005

Bob Reiss

  • The Eskimo and The Oil Main: The Battle at the Top of the World for America’s Future, Business Plus, 2012
  • The Animal Game, Ullstein (Germany), 2009
  • Black Monday: A Novel, Simon & Schuster, 2009
  • The Side Effect, Dell, 2006
  • The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future, Hyperion, 2004
  • Purgatory Road, Simon & Schuster, 1996
  • Frequent Flyer: One Plane, One Passenger, and the Spectacular Feat of Commercial Flight, Simon & Schuster,1994
  • The Last Spy, Simon & Schuster, 1994
  • The Road to Extrema, Summit Books, 1992
  • Flamingo, St. Martins, 1989
  • Saltmaker, Viking Adult, 1988
  • Divine Assassin, Little, Brown and Company, 1986
  • The Casco Deception, Little, Brown and Company, 1984
  • Summer Fires, Simon & Schuster, 1980
  • Franco Harris, Tempo Books, 1977
  • (Joe Rush novels published under Pen Name: James Abel)
  • Protocol Zero, Berkley Books, 2015
  • White Plague, Berkley Books, 2015
  • (Conrad Voort Novels published under Pen Name: Ethan Black)
  • At Hell’s Gate, Simon & Schuster, 2004
  • Dead for Life, Simon & Schuster, 2003
  • All the Dead Were Strangers, Simon & Schuster, 2001
  • The Broken Hearts Club, Ballantine Books, 2000
  • Irresistible, Ballantine Books, 2000

Susan Rich

  • Cloud Pharmacy, White Pine Press, 2014
  • The Alchemists’ Kitchen, White Pine Press, 2010
  • Cures Include Travel, White Pine Press, 2006
  • The Cartographer’s Tongue, White Pine Press, 2000

Joshua J. Robbins

  • Priase Nothing, University of Arkansas Press, 2013

Randall Roorda

  • Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing, State University of New York Press, 1998

Carolyn Ross

  • Writing for Real: A Handbook for Writing in Community Service, Longman, 2002
  • Writing Nature: An Ecological Reader for Writers, St. Martin’s Press, 1995

Frank Rossini

  • Sparking the Rain, Silverfish Review, 1979

Ira M. Sadoff

  • True Faith, BOA Editions, 2012
  • History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture, University of Iowa Press, 2009
  • Barter: Poems, University of Illinois Press, 2003
  • Grazing: Poems, University of Illinois Press, 1998
  • An Ira Sadoff Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose, Middlebury College Press, 1992
  • Emotional Traffic: Poems, David R. Godine Publisher, 1990
  • Uncoupling, Houghton Mifflin, 1982
  • Palm Reading in Winter, Houghton Mifflin, 1978
  • Settling Down, Houghton Mifflin, 1975

Maxine D. Scates

  • Undone, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011
  • Black Loam, Wordtech Communications, 2005
  • Toluca Street, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989

Steven W. Schoen

  • The Truth about Fiction, Longman, 1999

Jeffrey V. Schultz

  • Civil Twilight, Ecco, 2016
  • What Ridiculous Things We Could As of Each Other, University of Georgia Press, 2014

Judith Shears

  • The Russians, Dell Publishing, 1984

David Shetzline

Heckletooth 3, Random House, 1969

  • DeFord, Random House, 1968

Bandana Shrestha

  • Groping in the Dark, Indira Shrestha, 1987

Maxine Silverman

  • Palimpsest, Dos Madres Press, 2014

Brian J. Simoneau

  • River Bound, C&R Press, 2014

Caroline Sulzer

  • In the Disappearing Water, Plain View Press, 2009

Myrna P. Sweet (as “Myrna Peña-Reyes”)

  • Almost Home, University of the Philippines Press, 2003
  • The River Singing Stone, Anvil 1994

Lysley A. Tenorio

  • Monstress, Ecco, 2012

Mark K. Thalman

  • Catching the Limit, Fairweather Press, 2009

Gail Tremblay

  • Indian Singing: Poems, Calyx Books, 1998
  • Indian Singing in 20th Century America, CALYX Books, 1990
  • Close to Home, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1981
  • Night Gives Women the Word, Omaha Printing Co., 1979

Brian Turner

  • My Life as a Foreign Country, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014
  • Phantom Noise, Alice James Books, 2010
  • Here, Bullet, Alice James Books, 2005

Jo Van Arkel

  • Give Me a Hat to Wear, Stormy Weather Press, 1997
  • The Things I’ve Got Growing Deep Down Inside: Stories, Univ. Editions, 1994

Robert L. VanderMolen (as “Robert VanderMolen)

  • Water, Michigan State University Press, 2008
  • Breath, New Issues Poetry Press, 2000
  • Along the River and Other Poems, Talman Co, 1978
  • Circumstances, Sumac Press, 1978
  • The Invisible Lost Book of Deep Ocean Fish, Zeitgeist, 1968

Cindy Veach

  • Gloved Against Blood, CavanKerry Press, 2017

Alana Noel Voth

  • Dog Men, Tiny Hardcore Press, 2014

Ingrid Wendt-Salisbury (as “Ingrid Wendt”)

  • Evensong, Truman State University Press, 2011
  • Surgeonfish, WordTech Communications, 2005
  • The Angle of Sharpest Ascending, WordTech Communications, 2004
  • Blow the Candle Out, Pecan Grove Press, 2002
  • Singing the Mozart Requiem, Far Corner Books, 1987
  • Moving the House, BOA Editions, 1980

Dawn Diez Willis

  • Still Life with Judas & Lightning, Airlie Press, 2013

Miles Wilson

  • McKenzie Rising: An American Frolic, University of Nevada Press, 2022
  • Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American West, University of New Mexico Press, 2018
  • Fire Season, Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2014
  • Harm: Poems, University of Nevada Press, 2003
  • Line of Fall, University of Iowa Press, 1989

John Witte

  • Disquiet, University of Washington Press, 2015
  • Second Nature, University of Washington Press, 2008
  • The Hurtling, Orchises Press, 2005
  • Loving the Days, Wesleyan University Press, 1978

Corrina M. Wycoff

  • O Street, OV Books, 2007

Rafael J. Zepeda, Jr.

  • Desperados, World Parade Books, 2013
  • Tao Driver and Selected Poems, World Parade Press, 2009
  • Horse Medicine and Other Stories, Applezaba Press, 1990